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Kelly to exhibit at National Museum

Green Left Weekly cartoonist Chris Kelly with his collection of sculptures “The Subterraneans”, modelled on members of the Howard cabinet, and Kelly's stand-alone piece titled “John Howard — Desert Warrior — the Poor Man's Napoleon” (above).

GERMANY: Anti-war rhetoric puts SPD-Greens coalition back in office

BY JIM GREENThe German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic-Greens coalition government was narrowly re-elected in the September 22 national elections.The Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the conservative Christian Democratic

PALESTINE: Between siege and 'reform'

BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH — Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's presidential compound has brought the Palestinian plight back into world headlines alongside the impending US-led invasion of Iraq. While the mainstream media has largely

Brenner's popularisation of 'Global Turbulence'

BY ROHAN PEARCE John Pilger has come under attack in Britain for his documentary Palestine is Still the Issue, to be screened in Australia on SBS TV at 8.30pm on October 8. A September 20 article in the British Jewish Chronicle

CFMEU's Kingham could be jailed

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — Martin Kingham, the Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), faces the possibility of six months' imprisonment. Kingham was formally charged with being in contempt of the

COLOMBIA: MP flees Uribe's death squads

BY ROBERTO JORQUERA According to independent left-wing Colombian MP Gustavo Montealegre Almario, Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, is the leader of the country's right-wing paramilitary death squads groups. Montealegre told Green Left

Resistance adopts 'call to action'

BY ROHAN PEARCE MELBOURNE —"We want to draw the link between war and corporate globalisation, and win people to the perspective that a movement against neo-liberalism and imperialism in a time of war needs to become an anti-war movement", Kylie

Activists plan to shut down the WTO meeting

BY MARINA CARMAN& DALE MILLS SYDNEY — A meeting initiated by the No WTO network was held on September 21 to discuss protest actions against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting of trade ministers to be held on November 14-15. Around 100

Poor Indonesians scapegoated in people-smuggling trial

BY SARAH STEPHEN A Perth District Court judge on September 27 sentenced two Indonesian fisherpeople to jail for their role in transporting 438 asylum seekers to Australia in August last year. The people responsible for organising the journey and

Labor's real plan for Telstra

BY ALISON DELLIT On September 19, federal ALP leader Simon Crean, accompanied by Labor's candidate for the Cunningham by-election, Sharon Bird, announced that the party would vote against the Coalition's proposed changes to Telstra's price controls

Humanitarian crisis in Palestine

BY SOBHI ALBADAWI& NOREEN NAVIN SYDNEY — Mustapha Barghouthi, president of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, gave a presentation on the situation in Palestine at the Trades and Labor Council on September 20. Barghouthi was in

COVER STORY: Bush's Iraq war threat based on lies

On September 24, British Prime Minister Tony Blair presented his much-anticipated "dossier", Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, to the parliament. Supporters of a US attack on Iraq had promised that Blair would provide the definitive "evidence" that